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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Cross-Layer Energy Analysis and Proposal of a MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Dedicated to Building Monitoring Systems

  AUTHORS: Denis Dessales, Noël Richard, Anne-Marie Poussard, Rodolphe Vauzelle, Christophe Martinsons

  KEYWORDS: WSN; Physical Layer; MAC Layer; Energy Consumption; Cross-Layer Analysis

  JOURNAL NAME: Wireless Sensor Network, Vol.5 No.5, May 24, 2013

  ABSTRACT: In a sustainable development context, the monitoring systems are essential to study the building energy performances. With the recent technology advances, these systems can be based on wireless sensor networks, where the energy efficiency is the main design challenge. To this end, most of the studies focus on low power Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to reduce the overall energy consumption of a network. Nevertheless, the performances assessment of these protocols is generally not performed in a realistic way, and does not take into account the performances of the other layers of the OSI model. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer methodology to assess the real performances of a MAC protocol by taking into account the traffic volume, the synchronization losses and more particularly the physical layer performances through a Bit Error Rate (BER) criterion. The simulation results demonstrate clearly the physical layer impact on a sensor lifetime. Finally, the proposal of an energy efficient MAC protocol for a wireless sensor network dedicated to an application of building monitoring is proposed.